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This online course examines how urban sustainability can be delivered: how cities function as systems of systems; how to increase urban productivity, reduce urban poverty and inequality and enable urban inclusion and safety; and protect the urban environment, reduce risk and vulnerability. The course is led and curated by Aromar Revi, Director of the IIHS…

The Hungry Cities Partnership participated in Food Secure Canada’s 9th National Assembly on October 14, 2016 at Ryerson University. HCP Associate Director Dr. Bruce Frayne (UW) and HCP Data Manager Dr. Cameron McCordic (BSIA) represented the Hungry Cities Partnership in a session on “Global Perspectives on Sustainable City Region Food Systems.” Dr. Frayne and Dr.…

The HCP participated in the World Nutrition Conference at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town from 29 August to 3 September 2016: Jonathan Crush (BSIA) chaired the Symposium on “The Food and Nutrition System We Need”; Jane Battersby (ACC) presented on “Beyond Nutrition: Food as Social, Spatial and Economic Context…

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP), African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) and the Consuming Urban Poverties (CUP) research projects convened a workshop entitled Joining the Sustainable Development Goals: Urbanization and Food Security in the Global South in July 2016 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers presented thoughtful and insightful findings on…

The Hungry Cities Partnership held a conference at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business on 15 February 2016. It’s summed up here by Emma Broadway for UrbanAfrica.Net: As Africa continues to urbanize at an unprecedented rate, the continent’s cities grow hungrier and hungrier. The crux of this issue lies in urban planning and…

Our latest AFSUN policy paper, by Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera, examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major South African cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The vast majority were food insecure in terms of the amount of food to which they had access and the quality and…

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner is published by SAMP, ACC and IDRC. This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life…

This AFSUN report, by Godfrey Tawodzera, Liam Riley and Jonathan Crush,  looks at poverty and urban food security in Zimbabwe after the crisis. The nadir of Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN. This survey found that households in low-income…